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Page 8-Saturday, January 29, 1983-The Michigan Daily
Cagers shoot for turnaround
By LARRY MISHKIN
Bill Frieder must be wondering if the
situation can get any worse for his basket:
ball team this year.
'First, it drops a close one to Ohio State.
Then comes the Indiana debacle. Add a
three-overtime loss to Purdue, and a
possible season-ending injury to Leslie
Rockymore leaving the Wolverines with
only two guards.
NOW IF THAT'S not bad enough,
Michigan has to pull itself together this af-
-ternoon and face a tough Illinois squad that
looks as if it's having anything but the
rebuilding year coach Lou Henson predic-
ted.
Sure the Fighting Illini start two freshmen,
'two sophomores and a junior, but that hasn't
seemed to make a difference to Henson's
boys as they've jumped out to a 3-3 Big Ten
record, including a 78-71 victory over
Michigan State on Thursday night.
Illinois is led by junior captain guard
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Derek Harper who is averaging 12.6 points a
game but had 25 in the win over the Spar-
tans. Teaming up with Harper in the Illini
backcourt is freshman Bruce Douglas, who
was the state of Illinois' Mr. Basketball for
1982 and is averaging nine points a contest.
IN THlE frontcourt. Illinois boasts one of
the top recruits in the nation last year in 6-9
Efrem Winters from Chicago who has been
good for 12.6 points a game so far, but had 16
on Thursday. 6-9 sophomore Anthony Welch
is the other forward and George Mon-
tgomery is the Illini center. The 6-8 Mon-
tgomery is averaging only 6.8 points a game
though and could prove to be a weak link in
Illinois' attack.
Michigan will now have to bounce back
from its heartbreaking 80-77 loss to Purdue
in three-overtimes that left the team
emotinally drained and mentally down.
Geting his team mentally up again will be
one of Frieder's main concerns.
"We're going to try to get our guys
playing with the enthusiasm they had
tonight," said a solumn Frieder in the
lockerroom following the Purdue loss. "It'll
be tough, but that's our job and we have to
work for it. The toughest thing in this con-
ference is to play a Saturday afternoon
game following a Thursday night game."
FRESHMAN forward Robert Henderson
was a little more direct than his coach. "We
have to get up," said Henderson who had
eight pionts and 10 rebounds against the
Boilermakers. "If we stay down we're
going to keep losing and we can't afford
that."
Undoubtably, the injury to Rockymore
has to be one of Frieder's main concerns at
the moment. The 6-3 guard, who hurt his
knee while undercutting Purdue's Jim
Bullcok, will enter the University's C.S.
Mott hospital on Sunday and be examined on
Monday by team physician Dr. Jerry
O'Connor. The unofficial report on the
Rock, pending examination, is that he will
be lost for the season. This will leave
Michigan with only two guards, Eric Turner
and Dan Pelekoudas, who have any real
playing time.
Regardless of the results of Monday's
examination, Rock will not be able to play
today and this will put an extra burden on
the two co-captains who must be careful not
to get into foul trouble too early into the
game.
"WE'LL HAVE to play smart from the
beginning," said Pelekoudas. "We won't be
able to gamble as much because we can't af-
ford fouls."
Asked if he thought Turner and
Pelekoudas could go the whole 40 minutes in
today's game Frieder said he doubted it sin-
ce Turner played all 55 minutes Thursday
night and Pelekoudas played 32 minutes.
Frieder said that he will have to work with
some members of the team to try and
develop depth at guard. Walk-on Gerard
Rudy saw playing time on Thursday and
may be called on today if either starter gets
into foul trouble.
Some good news for the Wolverines is that
Roy Tarpley will be ready for action in
today's game. Tarpley, who was hobbled by
a sprained ankle, saw only limited action
Thursday night.
STILL, THE Purdue loss and the Rock's
injury are bound to take their toll on the
team in today's game, if for no other reason
than because of playing 55 minutes on Thur-
sday and then trying to run with a quick
Illini team today.
"Illinois is a young team," said Frieder,
"but when you get Winters hot and Harper
hot they can be extremely difficult to han-
dle. They're not real big, but they are very
quick.
"WE HAVE to defend their big guys
because they post so well inside," Frieder
said. "We can't let their guards post on us
either, they have big guards."
Michigan played one of its best games on
Thursday, despite the loss, as many
Wolverines are beginning to play up to their
potentials. Turner's 32 points tied his career
high and McCormick turned in another fine
performance, this time against Purdue's
vaunted center russell Cross, scoring 12 poi-
nts. Butch Wade, who has been the surprise
so far of the freshmen, had 11 points.
THE LINE UPS
MICHIGAN ILLINOIS
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(15) Robert Henderson ... (6-9)
(40) Richard Rellford .... (6-6)
(44) Tim McCormick .... (6-11)
(32) Dan Pelekoudas .....(6-2)
(25) Eric Turner ......... (6-3)
Game time is 1:00 p.m. at Crisler
WAAM (1600 AM), WCBN (88.3 FP
and WLEN (103.9 FM).
F (24) Efrem Winters ...... (6-9)
F (44) Anthony Welch .......(6-9)
C (23) George Montgomery. (6-8)
G (12) Derek Harper ....... (6-4)
G (25) Bruce Douglas......(6-3)
Arena. The game will be broadcast on
M), WUOM (91.7 FM), WWJ (950 AM),
ByLARRY FRID
C'mon Antoine,
please stay home
An open letter to Antoine Joubert
W HAT'S ALL THIS talk I hear about you heading
out West? I can understand that UCLA has warm
weather, beautiful women, and a pretty fair basketball
program. Heck, I've sometimes found myself second
guessing, as I walk to classes in the middle of winter.
But be serious, you could be the key player that puts
this program over the top. Whether Bill Frieder or
anyone wants to admit it, he practically has left the
guard spot open for you. He didn't even recruit another
guard last season for fear he would scare you off. And
besides, he's a nice guy, who's suffered a lot of late.
Dropping their guard
Take Thursday night for example. Michigan plays its
heart out for three overtimes and still loses. In fact, not
only did it lose the game to Purdue, but more impor-
tantly it lost your friend, Leslie Rockymore, in-
definitely. That really hurt, because the Rock is the
most improved and consistent player on the squad, and
with a young team like the Wolverines, these attributes
are very important. I'm sure you've talked and talked
with your former high school teammate about your
decision, so I won't beleaguer that point.
Now you could imagine it is hard enough to play all
year long with just three guards, but now Frieder
might be down to two. Poor Bill, he looked like he was
going to strangle himself with his towel.
Just when things looked like they couldn't even get
worse on Thursday, Dan Pelekoudas fouled out. As
Agatha Christie would say - and then there was one.
Poor Eric Turner, he looked like a lost puppy on a
playground. The guy had nobody to play catch with
during the end of the game and, to put it bluntly, things
got a little ugly. Much to his credit, though, Turner
almost pulled this one out, but after 55 minutes of
basketball he finally proved he was only human.
Now I've seen you at the games, so I know you
realize the precarious situation Michigan is in - a
super-talented team that could be just one player away
from being great.iGuess Who? I don't know about you,
but it looks like it could be fun to play with Turner,
Wade and company. And who knows, you might even
win a Big Ten or NCAA championship in the process.
But let's be realistic, it will take a minor miracle to
win much of anything with only two guards. Okay,
you're probably saying to yourself, "I could do the
same thing at UCLA, and probably with more ex-
posure."
Wolverines bridesmaids again?
That's all good and true, but you going out of state
would be like a Detroiter buying a foreign car.
Seriously, it seems like it would be more fulfilling to
lead your home state team to national acclaim than to
play for an already established power. Besides, if you
go to UCLA you could permanently give Michigan the
label of never being able to land the big one.
First there was Kareem, who as Lew Alcinder
narrowed his choices down t the same two schools. He
was shortly followed by Darrell Griffith, Jeff Lamp,
Earvin Johnson and Clark Kellogg.Do you want to add
yourself to this "but Michigan was my second choice"
Ilist?
Now I realize I'm starting to beg, so let me end with
what my roommate always tells me. Look up to that
Maize and Blue sky and do it for the 'M'. Pretty cheap
recruiting tactic, huh?
Well, that's about all. Good luck on your decision,
hope to see you here next year.
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'M' tankers sink Hoosiers
,y KATIE BLACKWELL
It sounded more like Michigan Stadium during a
.Wolverine football game than just Matt Mann pool
;during a men's swimming meet last night.
Approximately 900 fired up fans were responsible
for the noise that cheered on the Michigan tankers
-o a 59-54 victory over a powerful Indiana squad. It
was only the second time the Wolverines have
defeated Indiana in a dual meet in the last two
decades.
THE MEET CAME down to the wire, just as
Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek had predicted. In-
diana was ahead, 54-52, going into the last event, the
400-yard freestyle relay. Each swimmer was to
swim a 100-yard leg. It didn't look good for the
Wolverines because earlier, Indiana had swept the
top three places in the 100-yard freestyle. The same
swimmers who had just buried Michigan in that
event were now back trying to do the same in the
relay. But it wasn't to be. Junior Mark Noetzel,
swimming the last leg for Michigan, touched the
wall, .05 seconds before Indiana's Joe Carroll,
giving the Wolverines the victory.
"The sprinters had to redeem themselves from
the losses in the 100 free," said Urbanchek. "They
wanted to come back and prove themselves."
The turning point in the meet came in the 3-meter
diving. Michigan trailed Indiana throughout the en-
tire' meet until Wolverine divers Bruce Kimball,
Mike Gruber and Kent Ferguson took their turns on
the 3-meter board. They swept the first, second,
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33-28. Kimball won the event with a score of 338.65.
Earlier in the meet, Kimball proved himself the
dominating diver amongst the two teams when he
won the 1-meter competition with a score of 302.55.
PLACING FIRST was Michigan's goal all along in
the meet. Since the tankers lacked the depth of In-
diana they knew that in order to win they had to rely
on first place points. Michigan did just that as it,
won nine of the 13 events.
Freshman standout Benoit Clement added to the
cause with two victories, coming in the 1000-yard
freestyle (9:20.74) and the 500 yard freestyle
(4:34.56).
Senior captain Bruce Gemmell did his part by
winning the 200-yard IM (1:53.27), the 200-yard
backstroke (1:54.19) and swimming the second leg
of the meet-saving 400-yard free relay.
ANOTHER FRESHMAN, Lance Schroeder, set a
new varsity record in the 200-yard butterfly with a
time of 1:49.08.
First year Big Ten coach Urbanchek was up
against some stiff competition, not only in the In-
diana swimmers, but also in their coach, James
"Doc" Counsilman, a 26-year veteran Big Ten
coach.
"We're disappointed that we lost," said Coun-
silman. "We should have won, but Michigan swam
real well. The loss will make us that much hungrier
for the Big Ten meet."
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Michigan freestyler Mark Noetzel celebrates after nosing out Indiana's Joe
Carroll in the last leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay. The relay victory gave
the Wolverines only their second victory over the Hoosiers in the last 20
years.
SCHWARTZ
N good is the Michigan women's swim
answer to that question seems to be a
troversy.
g to Indiana coach Bob Bruce "at this
are the best team in the conference."
oach Stu Isaac disagrees, however, saying
igan) are right in there for second. In-
innesota could knock us out of second. Ohio
1 the favorite."
TODAY'S dual meet between Indiana and
may not prove conclusively which team is
the other, one will get a good idea of just
hese two teams are when they face each
00 p.m. at Matt Mann pool.
he major factors in the meet may be the
ruce is the third Indiana coach in the last
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three years. He was brought in after the recruiting
season, which both Bruce and Isaac agree is a major
factor in this year's close Big Ten race.
This loss of a recruiting season by Indiana gives
Michigan a distinct advantage in its team depth. "We
(Indiana) are a well balanced team, yet we do not
have the kind of depth Michigan does," Bruce said.
MICHIGAN HAS swum to a 5-0 start this year, in-
cluding wins over Wisconsin, the University of Toron-
to, the University of Pittsburgh, and, last year's Big
Ten champ, Ohio State. Melinda Copp and captain
Denise Stuntzner have led the Wolverines so far this
year. "(They) have been there every time we have
needed them," Isaac said. "We have depended on
them every dual meet. They are really this year's
bright spots."
In addition, Isaac has been pleased with the per-
formance of two newcomers, freshman Naomi
Marubashi and transfer student Nancy Rutsch. The
one disappointment, according to Isaac, has been the
shoulder injury to Sue Cahill which has kept her from
reaching last year's form.
Indiana, 2-2 in dual meets, has lost to two teams,
Alabama and Southern Illinois, that finished in last
year's top 10 nationally and are expected to do so
again this year.
A combination of this difficult schedule and Bruce,
who according to Isaac, "has restored the confidence
of the swimmers in the program," should lead to a
very close meet. "I am looking for a very close meet
with a lot of close races," said Isaac. "The relays are
even. If they win both relays I don't think that we can
win the meet without some really outstanding per-
formances."
Copp
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Lendl and Vilas breeze
n By LARRY FREED
and LISA NOFERI
' Special to the Daily
DETROIT - The center 'stage of Cobo
f- Arena was not the scene of loud rock
music or vociferous basketball fans last
night, but of the muffled sounds of
scampering feet and tennis balls.
For the first time in history of men's
tennis, Detroit is the host of a WCT
tournament.
ONLY 3,784 people, however, turned
out to watch top seeds Ivan Lendl and
Guillermo Vilas continue their collision
course to the finals by registering con-
vincing victories in their quarterfinal
matches.
Vilas, looking strong and consistent
4 from the baseline, and Lendl,
discouraging any net-rushing opponen-
ts with his burning passing shots, are
5 destined to provide the best match of
the tournament.
Vilas breezed through the first set
winning, 6-1 over Paul McNamee and
ran into only slight difficulty in the
to beat. "I didn't come here to beat'
Lendl," he said. "I came here to win
the tournament but he is the player to
beat."
In the evening's opening match, Len-
dl definitely looked like the player to
beat as he easily disposed of Balazs
Taroczy by the identical scores of 6-2, 6-
2, 6-2. The Czechoslovakian top seed
used his powerful serve to dominate the
Hungarian clay-court specialist.
LENDL SERVED up 15 aces, in-
cluding four consecutive midway
through the second set. His power,
combined with his finesse backcourt
game, proved to be too much for Taroc-
zy.
"I'm happy I won easy, that's all I
to semis
wanted today," Lendl said. "I feel I'm
moving well and that helps me play bet-
ter, but I don't talk about being number
one."
While Lendl remained silent on that
topic, his opponent, Taroczy, was not at
a loss for ;words. "It's very tough to
beat him right now," he said.
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Lowly Cavaliers conquer Pistons
By RON POLLACK
Special to the Daily
PONTIAC - A National Basketball Association team which
is in second place in its conference is not supposed to lose a
home game against the worst team in the league. Yet that is
exactly what the Detroit Pistons did last night as the
Cleveland Cavaliers eeked out a 107-106 win.
With :06 left in the game, the score was tied, 103-103, when
Cleveland's John Bagley hit a 13-foot jump shot.
THE PISTON'S hopes for victory were dashed when Vinnie
Johnson's shot hit the rim and harmlessly bounced away with
one second remaining. Baglev nulled down the rebound and
The Piston's Isiah Thomas scored 22 points in the first half,
but was held to five points the rest of the way.
"THE KEY tonight was the way Geoff Huston shut down
Isiah in the second half," said Nissalke.
"They played well," said Thomas. "They controlled the
tempo of the game, and they did the thngs they had to do to
win the game."
The fact that the Cavaliers were able to do these things was
especially impressive since they only dressed nine players.
One of those players missing was leading scorer World B.
Free.